Installing From the Dell Operating System Media
Use the Operating System media CD or DVD that came with your Dell Precision workstation to install the driver during the operating system installation.
1Boot to the Dell Precision workstation Operating System CD or DVD.
2Continue your operating system installation using the instructions provided in the CD or DVD. The driver loads automatically.
Installing the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Driver
Use the procedures in this section to install the driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (versions 3, 4, and 5) and ES (versions 3, 4, and 5).
NOTE: The device driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Version 5 is native. To ensure you have the latest version of this driver, check the Dell Support website at support.dell.com. If a newer version exists, you can download the driver to your system.
Creating a Driver Diskette
Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Dell™ PowerEdge™ Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD or download the driver appropriate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (versions 3, 4, and 5) from the Dell Support website at support.dell.com to your temporary directory. This file includes two Red Hat Package Managers (RPMs) and driver update disk files. The package also contains the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) Red Hat Package Manager file.
The package is a gzipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux system, perform the following steps.
1gunzip the package.
2Execute tar
NOTE: The package contains DKMS RPM, the driver RPM (DKMS enabled) and the Driver Update Diskette (DUD image(s)).
3Use the dd command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate DUD image for this purpose.
"dd if=<name of the dd image file> of=/dev/fd0"
4Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in this section.
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